the republican congress was elected on the promise to create jobs.

[spanone]

now it's utterly, completely up to President Obama to deliver jobs...

funny how that worked out....

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. They were elected...

...to get that awful Negro out of the White House. Period.

(That they'll enrich themselves and their friends beyond measure is, to the electorate, irrelevant.)

The most-likely-to-vote demographic isn't actually working -- jobs aren't necessarily a factor.
It's not unemployed -- it's retired.

2010 mid-terms, 65+ voters -- R +19 (House)
2008 presidential, 65+ voters -- R +10
2006 mid-terms, 65+ voters -- R +0 (House)
2004 presidential, 65+ voters -- R +5
(CNN/VNS did not have 2002 national numbers)
2000 presidential, 65+ voters -- D +1

Something happened, beginning in 2008, to roughly double the GOP's appeal to the single most-likely-to-vote demographic, and whatever it was, it almost doubled again 2010.

Bush tried to privatize Social Security, and its recipients rewarded his party by failing to vote for the ultimate winner in a Presidential election for the first time in at least 40 years.

I'm guessing 2008 was when it started to get, ahem, dark out.

And that whatever happened in 2008 matters a lot to older voters -- in other words, the likeliest of likely voters.